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J4 GOUPAL & R. STEPHENSON. I DEVICE FOR INKING THE SOL BDGSS 0F BOOTS OR SHOES.

Patentd Oct. 11, 1887.

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JOSEPH COUPAL AND RICHARD STEPHENSON, OF VVOLLASTON, MASSA- GHUSETTS.

DEVICE FOR INKING THE SOLE-EDGES OF BOOTS on SHOES.

SPBCIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 371,434, dated October 11, 1887.

Application filed February 4,1887. S'erial No.226,604. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOSEPH COUPAL and RICHARD STEPHENSON, of Wollaston, Quincy,

in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Inking the Edges of Soles of Boots and Shoes, of which the fol boots and shoes with great rapidity and with-' out liability-of getting any of the ink or coloring-liquid on the uppers or bottom surface of the sole. 7

To these ends our invention consists in the machine and the combination of parts in the same, which we will now proceed to describe and claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, forming a part of this specification, the same letters indicating the same parts wherever they occur.

Of the drawings, Figure 1 represents an end view of our invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section of the same.

In carrying out our invention we provide a reservoir, 01, of preferably cylindrical form suitably supported upon a base,A, and mount in bearings of any proper character formed in the ends of the reservoir a shaft, 1), having arms or blades 0 secured thereto in the reserv01r.

(1 indicates a-roller having aflat periphery also secured to shaft 1) within the reservoir and at one end thereof, as shown in Fig. 2; said roller (1 being so arranged as that its periphery shall roll in contact with the periphcry of a similar though smaller roller, 6, secured on the end of a shaft jonrnaled in suitable bearings above and outside of the reservoir.

gindicates a toothed gear secured on or near the end of shaft f, opposite the end to which roller 6 is attached thereto, and said gear 9 isend of the reservoir ,or be detachably con'- nected therewith.

Over roller e and adapted to move in ways formed in the frame of the reservoir a is another guide, j, held pressed forward toward guide t by a spiral spring, 7:, arranged in a chamber formed ip an extension of the frame and bearing against the rear end of said guide j.

A neck or extension, Z, is formed on the rear of the reservoir, as shown'in'Fig.1,which neck is provided with an aperture or hole communicating with the interior of the reservoir, and a screw-cap, m, is fitted on the up perend of said neck to close the same.

The peripheries of rollers d and e may be provided with a yielding covering of any suitable character.

The operation of our invention is as follows:

Reservoir a being supplied with ink through i the aperture formed in neck Z, and cap m be ing screwed in place, shaft 1) is rotated in any suitable way, which operation carries around wings or arms 0, and so keeps the ink stirred up or agitated to prevent the precipitation orsettling of'the heavier particles therein. The same operation rotates roller (Z, having a portion of its periphery immersed in the ink, by which means ink is supplied to the periphery of roller 6 on shaftf,-rotated by the engagement of gear 9 with gear h. The shoe to be treated is placed with the face of the sole against the forward end of guide j, with the edge resting on the periphery of roller 6, and with guide 2' in the crease between the sole and upper. In this position the shoe is moved around so that all parts of the edge of the sole ICO securely in place against guide 2 and keeps the coloringliquid from being applied to the lower surface of the sole.

Suitable stuffing-boxes, a, may be provided on the ends of the reservoir around shaft 1) to prevent the ink from leaking or creeping out on the latter.

IVhile we have been particular to describe the form and arrangement of all the parts here shown, it is obvious that these may be changed without departing from the nature or spirit of the invention.

\Vhat we claim is- 1., In a machine for inking the edges of soles of boots and shoes, the reservoir, a rotating shaft journalcd therein, agitator blades or arms secured to said shaft in said reservoir, an ink-supp] y roller also secured to said shaft, and a sole-cdge-inking roller arranged to have its periphery roll in contact with the periphery ofthe supply-roller, combined, constructed, and operating substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth.

2. In a machine for inking the edges of soles of boots and shoes, the reservoir, a rotating shaft journalcd therein and provided with blades or wings for agitating the ink, the inksupply roller, a sole-edge-inking roller arranged to have its periphery roll in contact with the periphery of the supply-roller, and a guide adapted to enter the crease between the sole and upper of the boot or shoe, all constructed, combined, and operating as and for the purpose hereinbefore set forth.

3. In a machine for inking the edges of soles 35 of boots and shoes, an ink-supply roller, a sole-edge-inking roller, 9. guide adapted to enter the crease between the sole and upper of the boot or shoe, and a spring-pressed guide adapted to bear against the lower face of the 0 shoe-sole, constructed,combined,arranged, and operating substantially as hereinbefore set forth.

4. In a machine for inking the edges of soles of boots and shoes, a reservoir, shaft 1), provided 4 5 with ink-agitating blades a, roller d, shaftf, roller 6, and gearwheels g and h, constructed, combined, and operating substantially as described.

5. In a machine for inking the edges of soles 50 of boots and shoes, an inksupply roller, a sole-edge-inking roller, e, guide *5, guide j, and spring is, all constructed, combined, and operating substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof we have signed our 5 names to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 17th day of January, A. D. 1887.

JOSEPH COUPAL. RICHARD STEPHENSON. 

